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Description: | Oil and watercolour paintings from 17th century to present. There are also Greek and Russian Orthodox icons, the T B Lewis Bequest of Japanese woodcut prints, a small collection of pen and ink drawings by John Sharples and posters of Bombay Talkies movies.
The museum has a collection of over 250 easel paintings, mainly of the 19th century and depicting themes such as animals, landscape. Animal painters include artists such as J F Herring, Thomas Sidney Cooper, Richard Ansdell and well-known bird painter Archibald Thorburn. There are also many exceptional classical Victorian works including 'Cherries' by Frederic, Lord Leighton, 'Diana or Christ?' by Edwin Long and Albert Moore's 'The Loves of the Winds and the Seasons'. A small number of European, mainly Dutch, works also feature in the collection and range from the 17th to 19th century.
The watercolour collection includes 330 works by all the typical artists of the 19th and early 20th century including Turner, Samuel Palmer, David Cox, William Hunt, and Thomas Girtin. Prints include the John Sharples archive of local material and total over 500 works.
The Hart Collection contains an important group of 1,000 Japanese prints representing the major artists associated with Ukiyoe prints (meaning 'images of the floating world') such as Hokusai, Hiroshige, Utamaro, Shunsho and Harunobu. The prints depict actors, landscapes, famous courtesans, daily life and myth & legend. | Subjects: | Watercolours Paintings Fine Art Prints | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 01254 695 370 | Telephone: | 01254 667 130 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:2226 | Go to resource |
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